Wülfinghausen Monastery

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Wülfinghausen monastery church

The Kloster Wülfinghausen is a 1236 based Augustine canon woman pin , which after the reformation to Lutheran woman pin was. It is located near Eldagsen in the Hanover region, directly on the Osterwald ridge . The complex consists of the self-contained and directly adjacent building complexes monastery and monastery property. Wülfinghausen is one of the five Calenberg monasteries that are administered by the Hannover Monastery Chamber.

history

prehistory

Monastery church inside

The foundation of the monastery was preceded by a facility in Engerode near Salzgitter by the knight Ditmar von Oddingroht (Engerode) for nuns according to the rule of St. Augustine . After only a short existence, the monastery was moved to Wülfinghausen , where a building site was acquired or donated by the knight Arnold von Wülfinghausen. The building was built as an Augustinian convent in honor of the Virgin Mary.

Edification

The year 1236 is given for the building and 1240 for the inauguration in a document from Konrad II von Riesenberg , Bishop of Hildesheim . The monastery remained poor despite donations, also by the Counts of Hallermund as regional rulers. In 1323 the number of monastery residents was limited to 60. They came from the nobility and the wealthy bourgeoisie. On January 8, 1378, a conflagration destroyed the monastery buildings.

reformation

In 1543 the monastery converted to Lutheran teaching . In 1593 it was secularized. Since then, the monastery has been a women's monastery into which single Protestant women have been accepted. In 1618 six conventual women lived in the monastery, in 1684 there were twelve women. In the 16th century, the monastery belonged to the Calenberg monasteries, along with Mariensee, Marienwerder, Barsinghausen and Wennigsen, whose income flowed into the monastery coffers in Hanover.

Fire and reconstruction of the monastery and monastery

In 1728 another fire destroyed the medieval monastery buildings except for the monastery church, which was built in the Gothic style. A memorial plaque at the gate to the monastery property indicates that King George II laid the foundation stone again on March 18, 1729 . The new construction of the buildings of the monastery was already completed in 1730, the reconstruction of the convent building in the Baroque style was not completed until 1740. The farm yard of the monastery got the dimensions of 160 m × 60 m. It is bordered by barns and stables made of rubble stones and has not been changed since it was rebuilt. The entire complex of the monastery and monastery estate gives a castle-like impression.

  • Gutstor with a view of the courtyard of the monastery and the manor house

  • Memorial plaque for the rebuilding in 1729 at the Gutstor

  • Spacious barns of the monastery property

  • Access from the car park to the Wülfinghausen monastery

  • Memorial stone from 1983 at the Deisterpforte for three conventual women of the monastery who had had an accident

Wallburg

Wooded mountain spur of the Osterwald with the remains of the Barenburg , seen from the monastery

About a kilometer west of the monastery is the Barenburg on a spur-shaped foothill of the Osterwald . It is a ramparts of 5.5 hectares in the interior. The facility is in a strategically favorable location, as two sides are naturally secured by steep rock faces and slopes. Since no excavations have been carried out so far and no finds are known, the construction time of the facility is assumed to be in the pre-Roman Iron Age . It could have been used as a refuge until the Middle Ages , as it was part of the monastery property.

Sister communities

Community Christ Brotherhood Selbitz

Head ash on the footpath from Wülfinghausen Monastery

Since 1994 the monastery has been inhabited by seven sisters from the Evangelical Community Christ Brotherhood Selbitz from Upper Franconia .

Community of Wülfinghausen Monastery

In 2013, the three remaining sisters separated from the community of origin and, together with a new postulant, now form an independent Protestant monastery within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. Abbess is Reinhild von Bibra.

The monastery today

Courses on Christian and spiritual topics are held in the monastery. It is possible to spend a vacation in the guest house of the monastery or to take a break of up to three months.

A path with head ash leads from the Wülfinghausen monastery to a forest restaurant.

The organ of the monastery church

The organ was built in 1969 by the organ builder Emil Hammer in a case from around 1820. The instrument has 11 registers on a manual and pedal. The playing and stop actions are mechanical. In 2006, the organ building workshop Jörg Bente completely renovated and re-voiced the instrument .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th' N
2. Dumped 8th'
3. Viol 8th' N
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Wooden flute 4 ′
6th Fifth (from c 1 ) 3 ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Mixture III
Pedal C – f 1
10. Sub bass 16 ′
11. Octavbass 8th' N
N = new register (Bente, 2006)

literature

  • Heiner Jürgens (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Springe (= The art monuments of the province of Hanover, vol. 1, part 3). Schulze's bookstore, Hanover 1941; Reprint: Wenner, Osnabrück 1978 (= art monuments inventories of Lower Saxony , vol. 19).
  • Wilhelm Mithoff : Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover. Vol. 1: Principality of Calenberg , Hanover 1871.

Web links

Commons : Kloster Wülfinghausen  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wülfinghausen Monastery ( Memento from March 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), p. 2.
  2. ↑ Reinhild von Bibra: Adventure of a start-up. Wulfinghausen Monastery . In: Anna-Maria from the Wiesche, Frank Lilie (ed.): Kloster auf Evangelisch. Reports from life together . Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2016, ISBN 978-3-89680-904-9 , pp. 96-101.
  3. ↑ Press release of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover: Change of abbess in Wülfinghausen Monastery / Foundation of the Wülfinghausen Monastery Community , April 4, 2013, accessed on August 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Wülfinghausen

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 27.2 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 53.2 ″  E